Subject: Talking to Whom?
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 18:35:41 EDT
"ER meetings"
During my surgical residency I was called out of a sound
sleep to the emergency room. Unshaven and with tousled
hair, I showed up with an equally unpresentable medical
student. In the ER we encountered the on-call medical
resident and his student, both neatly attired in clean white
lab coats.
The resident said to his student, "You can always tell the
surgeons by their absolute disregard for appearance."
Two evenings later, I was at a banquet when called to
the ER to suture a minor laceration.
I was stitching away -- wearing a tuxedo -- when I
encountered that same medical resident. He looked
at me, then said to his student, "Sure is sensitive to
criticism, isn't he?"
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"Talking to Whom?"
My sister-in-law was married to a prominent
surgeon who was a member of operating
teams at both St. Francis Hospital and
Christ Hospital in the Chicago area. He
would operate in the morning, then field calls
about his patients in the evening.
Once when I was visiting his home, he was
on the phone talking to a resident at Christ
Hospital when the other phone rang. My
sister-in-law answered, then whispered to
her husband, "It's St. Francis calling."
He whispered back, "Tell St. Francis I'll have
to call back. I'm talking to Christ."
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